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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Tuesday, May 11, 2021 I am John

Pond Horrits the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor Abe Greenwald

Hi Abe, Hujan, senior writer Christine Rosen, high Christine, and associate editor

Noah Rothman, hi Noah, hi John, I mentioned this yesterday keep your eyes peeled if you

are a commentary subscriber for your to your emails or you have some been an attendee at

our events in the past because we are going to be live with our 11th annual roast which

of course we have to cancel last year we will be roasting the genius Rabbi Mayor Sullivan

Hick with high spirited fun and many well-known people whose identities I don't know yet joining

us to tease Sully within an inch of his life there will be individual seats available there

will be tables available you will be giving you that information as it comes that's a commentary

roast of ember 22nd in New York City together and I we ain't going to be wearing masks I'm

telling you there right now I and you know what I was going to talk about Israel first

but since I mentioned masks I'm going to use this occasion to once again praise to my

great shock and horror David Leigh and art of the New York Times who I think has over

the last 10 years been one of the worst writers on economics in America but as a somebody

who has been writing about COVID and sort of the factual basis of COVID mania has a really

really centrally important column today revealing an unbelievable miscalculation on the part

of the Centers for Disease Control about the danger of outdoor transmission of COVID that

has led the CDC to continue to say that everybody vaccinated or unvaccinated needs to wear

masks outside and that according to him maybe one of you can back me up on on whether I'm

getting the details right here that the CDC says basically there is a kind of 10% jet

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